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Vanessa28304243kh0p
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February 7, 2023
Question

No option to save as GIF from Save for web legacy

  • February 7, 2023
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Hi everyone. I'm suddenly having an issue saving gifs from photoshop. I'm doing the usual steps to create a gif and after I select export, save for web (legacy), save... the only options I have are HTML and images, images only, and HTML only. I haven't done anything differently to cause this and I've reset my laptop (windows), reset my photoshop preferences but nothing is working. How can I fix this?

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    MSU Comm Coordinator
    Participant
    January 23, 2024

    I am having the same issue. I've been saving animated GIFs for years using "Save for Web (legacy)" with no problems. Suddenly only the html and images options are showing. I am using PS 2024, but also went back to PS 2022 and that seems to have changed as well (must have been affected by an update because I successfully made an animated GIF in Sept. 2023).

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      phillycheeser
      Participant
      February 15, 2024

      I found a workaround for now.  In the "save for web" dialog box, click the preview button:

      It will open up a browser and your .gif will be able to be saved via the browser. I just dragged it from the browser to the desktop and it saved as a .gif.

      I'm fairly sure it is affecting the potential quality of the .gif, but at least it works.

        Conrad_C
        Community Expert
        Conrad_CCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        February 7, 2023

        It hasn’t changed, but in Save for Web (Legacy) you choose the image file format in the upper right corner of the Save for Web dialog box, not in the file system dialog box that appears after you click Save. The file system dialog box format choices (HTML and Images, Images Only, HTML Only) are for whether the images get exported on their own, or with accompanying HTML code (such as if the Slice tool was used).

         

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          Vanessa28304243kh0pAuthor
          Participant
          February 7, 2023

          These are my current settings. Thank you for your time btw

          Conrad_C
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          Conrad_CCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          February 7, 2023

          OK. You have it set up correctly. That means when you click Save at the bottom, and it displays the box where you tell it which folder to save into, in the Format menu you can leave it set to Images. When you click Save in that second box, it will save the image in GIF format.

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